Ex-Jets K Chandler Catanzaro signs a 1-year deal with Buccaneers

That’s because the Buccaneers are signing Chandler “The Cat-Man” Catanzaro to a one-year deal, according to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo. Catanzaro spent last season in New York after starting his career in Arizona.

Bucs are signing K Chandler Catanzaro, source says. Heads to Tampa after one year with the Jets.

Catanzaro follows in the footsteps of another former Jets kicker, Nick Folk. Here is hoping for Catanzaro that his Buccaneers career ends up a lot more successful than that of Folk’s, which ended abruptly after he missed multiple easy field goals last season.

Catanzaro came on the scene as one of the best young kickers in the game over the course of the 2014 and 2015 seasons for the Cardinals. The 2016 season, however, was not as kind to him, as he only made 75 percent of his field goals. The Cardinals opted not to bring him back and he signed a one-year deal with the Jets

Catanzaro had a nice bounce-back season for the Jets, making 83.3 percent of his field goals, including the longest in Jets history, 57-yarder.

Now, he is Tampa BayBay-bound, joining a team that has had a terrible need at kicker for some time. The Jets, meanwhile, have one more position to fill out during Mike Maccagnan’s offseason spending spree.

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